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That site you gave sucked but I looked June Christy up on youtube. Sure she has a nice voice. Maybe she wasted such a nice voice on Jazz though.
She was popular in the 50s. Im surprised so many so far know of her. I didn't till now.
Unfortunately, a lot of good stuff is missing on YouTube--including the Christy tunes I mentioned. As for "wasting a nice voice on jazz"--well, jazz can be some of the hardest stuff to sing--especially some of Pete Rugolo's charts. He himself said this about June Christy:
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She was wonderful. Sometimes I’d listen to the playbacks and wonder "My God how did she ever do it?" I’d write all these crazy introductions, insert modulations, write wild endings and nothing ever bothered her. She was fast too. We used to get four recordings done in three hours, and sometimes we made albums together we did them in three sessions. She was amazing, and very lovable. For all of us working together in the studio it was like one great big, happy family.
Interestingly, June Christy never learned to read music.
PS--To hear her swinging side, try this: http://www.last.fm/music/June+Christy/_/Easy+Street . Oh, and the trumpeter who solos on this was a very young Maynard Ferguson--long before he spent a couple of decades leading his award-winning jazz band.
Frequently, if a song disappears from YouTube, you can run a search for the same title, and it will be back on under a new URL.
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